Ukrainian bandurist, folklorist, rock musician, composer, author of about 400 musical works.
He graduated from the Kyiv State Higher Music School named after R. M. Glyer (department of folk instruments), the National Pedagogical University named after M. P. Drahomanov (Kyiv), the Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko and a master's degree there.
Collaborated with the National Cinematheque of Ukraine. His music is heard in the 35th and 55th series of the "Unknown Ukraine" project.
The most popular of Vasyl Lyuty's works is the song "Sword of Areya", based on the novel of the same name by the Ukrainian writer Ivan Bilyk, which was performed by the groups "Haydamaki", "Shadow of the Sun", "Hoverla" and "Veda", and, from the songs of his own performance, " Mosquito".
One of the first to perform the song "My friend Kovalyu" (Russian version of "Lieutenant Golitsyn") on the big stage.
Collaborates with the bands - "Ruthenia", "Haydamaki", "Shadow of the Sun", "Fata Morgana UA" (Kyiv - Horlivka), "Khoreya Kozatska", "Varyon/PolyKarp", "Gonta"; performed by Taras Zhytynskyi and Taras Silenko.
He took an active part in the action "Ukraine without Kuchma", the Revolution on the Grass, the Orange Revolution, and repeatedly raised the fighting spirit with songs from the stage of the Revolution of Dignity.
Laureate of International and All-Ukrainian music competitions and festivals.
Biography
Music schools
As a child, Vasyl was taken to an "audition" at the Zvenigorod State Secondary School (director - Hryhoriy Hryhorovych Kutsan), and despite his love for the bass guitar (I saw him at a wedding!), Vasyl got into Bandura's bandura class.
Love for Ukrainian musical culture was instilled by playing the bandura by the first teacher - Lidia Sergiyivna Shcherbak.
The first attempts to compose their own works began at the age of 9. These were primitive etudes, waltzes and polkas for bandura. After seeing Aleksey Baranov's poem "Autumn" (mistakenly attributed to Aleksey Pleshcheeva) translated into Ukrainian, he created the first song.
In parallel with his studies and participation in competitions as a bandurist, Vasyl is also engaged in composition and improvisation with theoretic specialists Larisa Mykolaivna Krasavina (Cherkasy) and Volodymyr Ivanovich Gerashchenko (Vatutine). At the Cherkasy City Competition of Young Composers in 1987, Lyuty Vasyl's song "Robin Hood" won the Grand Prix.
He also studied at Cherkasy No. 1 and Vatutinsk children's music schools.
Glyer school
After graduating from school, in 1988 he entered the Kyiv State Higher Music School named after R. M. Glyer at the department of folk instruments. First, the class of teacher Lidia Maksimivna Chmelyova, then the class of teacher Olga Oleksiivna Turovska. A 15-year-old first-year student was given a warning for "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism" — the student offered the teacher to read a course on the history of the USSR in Ukrainian. The "behind-the-scenes" games of the sycophants of the "system" led to serious consequences - I experienced "repressive medicine" myself. And after "coming out" - non-recognition and alienation from the world. However, Vasyl caught up with his at the end of the school, winning the 1st prize at the bandurist competition and the 3rd prize at the International Competition named after M. V. Lysenko. He arrived at the last competition with a temperature of 38, "leaving without permission" the infectious department of the hospital.
In Cherkasy
After graduating from the school, he returned to Cherkasy, where he later headed the Contemporary Music Center "Synthesis-Mix" of the Palace of Children's and Youth Creativity, whose pupils participated in many out-of-town festivals and concerts.
At the invitation of the National Cinematheque, he writes music and takes part in the filming of the series "Unknown Ukraine" (series 35 and 55, respectively - "Meeting with Porta" (director - Yakiv Oleksiiovych Syrbu) and "Haydamaki" (director - Oleksandr Mykhailovych Ryabokris)).
Collaborates with the Palace Youth Theater, writes music for the play "Life Illuminated by Love" (directed by Svitlana Sokolova), plays in many projects with a colorful style - from Dixieland (jazz) to glam metal rock.
Since 1994, he has been a member of the Cherkasy Rock Club and the Cherkasy Association of Contemporary Music Performers with his art rock band "Middelia" (later - "Artania"). Wins at the regional festival "Holiday without a reason" (3rd prize in the pop music genre and diploma in the rock genre).
At Drahomanov University
Moves to Kyiv. During his studies at the State Pedagogical University named after M. Drahomanov, he received the 2nd prize in the pop music genre at the "Pearls of the Season" festival, the diploma of the best composer and arranger at the "Rozmay", "Miloslavia", "Student Meridian" festivals.
Collaborates with creative workers of the Pedagogical College named after Ushinsky ("Collegium" ensemble under the direction of Valentina and Viktoria Kasyanovy). The songs began to be played on the National Radio.
In 1997, the folk-rock band "Do It Yourself" was created, which successfully proved itself at the Chervona Ruta festival in Kharkiv (1997) and Dnipropetrovsk (1999). At this time, the band made its first recordings at the BZZ studio (sound director - Mykhailo Detkovskyi).
In Cherkasy (1999—2003)
At the end of 1999, he returned to Cherkasy for a while, where he and Andriy Zbandut created the cyber-psychodelic collective "Charlatovy Korzna". However, after ndue to performances and recordings, the group ceased to exist. And Vasyl changes the artistic scene to the political arena.
In 2000, as part of the Cherkasy UNA-UNSO team, he participated in the "Ukraine without Kuchma" events. The repressive authorities throw Vasyl's friends behind bars, and he ends up leading the regional branch of the organization. As a good organizer, he not only saved the existence of the organization itself, but also reached compromises between other center-right and right-wingers, gaining authority among national-patriotic organizations.
In Kyiv (2003—2008)
In 2003, he moved to Kyiv, where he began to deeply study the pre-Christian period of the State, becoming an adept of the Ancestral Faith movement. Gets his new and future stage name — Zhyvosil Lyutych.
Releases CDs - "Awake our God!", "Perun's Shield" (together with Bogumyr Mykolaiv), "For Ukraine, for Freedom". He writes his most popular works - "Perunytsia", "Maty Slava", "Solba Godam" and "Sword of Areya".
In 2004, during the student confrontation in Sumy (traveled as a volunteer), he was arrested and convicted of administrative offenses. Helped the students of Sumy Oblast in the campaign to defend the autonomy of Sumy universities. (see Revolution on the Grass)
In 2005, he became a student of the Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko and completed his master's degree under him. He studied in the class of Zuyeva Lyudmila Viktorivna, academic supervisor - Nikolay Halyna Yuriivna, teacher-consultant on world culture - Hanna Petrivna Prykhodko.
At the Sumy studio "PanIvan" he recorded two more albums - "Oriana. Life as It Is" and "To the Glory of Russia" (director - Ivan Vesnych).
In 2006, he was invited to the rock band "Vognesmikh" as an accordionist.
For some time, he worked as a teacher at Kyiv Lyceum No. 157 (director Viktor Ivanovich Kostenko) and as an avent walker at the Quadro-Extreme company.
In Rubizhny
In 2008, he moved to the Slobozhan region, to the city of Rubizhne, Luhansk region, where he worked as a teacher in elementary school No. 9. At the same time, he studied for a master's degree at the SDPU named after Makarenko Under the guidance of academic director Nikolai Halyna Yuriivna, he wrote two works - "Folk rock as a means of intercultural education of teenagers in secondary schools" and "Genesis of bandura" (hypothesis of Scandinavian-Baltic origin).
From 2004 to 2014, both independently and as part of bands, he participated in about 150 concerts held in various cities of Ukraine. During the Maidan of Dignity, he performed on the stage of the Maidan.
On April 21, 2014, during the pro-Ukrainian rally "For United Ukraine" in Rubizhny, Luhansk Region, he was brutally beaten by pro-Russian collaborators and arrested by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
After the protection of the OSCE, he was released and left for Kyiv with his family.
In Kyiv (since 2014)
As an art volunteer, he often travels to the ATO zone. Engaged in religious concerts for soldiers of the National Guard, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, volunteer battalions.
Collaborates with the creative collectives "Horeya Kozatska" (directed by People's Artist of Ukraine Taras Kompanichenko), "Varyon" (directed by Valery Gladunets), "Haydamaki" (directed by Oleksandr Yarmola), "Shadow of the Sun" (directed by Serhii Vasylyuk), " Fata Morgana UA" (directed by Anton Kotsar). He represented Ukraine at the "From Heart to Heart" festival in Shalchyninkai (Lithuania), at the international radio festival "Kalynovi Mosty" in Hurovo-Ilawiec (Poland) and a number of events dedicated to Ukrainian-Polish cultural and historical relations. Participant of international events on education and culture from Ukraine.
He took part in the events of the Small Academy of Sciences (leader Oksen Vasyliovych Forest), the formation "Creative Sector" (leader Kostyantyn Kozak) and the formation "Music Battalion" (leader Honored Artist Vasyl Panchenko). Collaborates with Honored Artist of Ukraine, kobzar Taras Silenko and artist Taras Zhytynskyi. Friends with famous writers and publicists Roman Koval and Serhii Kovalenko, politicians - Andriy Parubiy, Yurk Syrotyuk, Viktor Kryvenk. An explicit and implicit participant of the "Being of Ukrainians" conferences.
Hosted cultural and educational programs on "Radio Kultura" of the National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine.
Musician of the band Ruthenia (he participated in the recording of three albums with them). He himself says the following about participation:
I have admired "Ruthenia" since my student days, but I never thought that I would become a member of this formation. I once had a humorous invitation to "Komu Vnyz", a serious invitation to "Vasya Club", they called to "Viy". But "Ruthenia" somehow came closer, in terms of meaning.
As part of the band "Fata Morgana UA", he participated in performances with foreign artists - Chris Bradley from Scotland and Gerd Kramber from Germany. For the latter, he made arrangements of his works, in particular the song "Memories of the Maidan".
In addition to the "hyped" work "Sword of Areya" by such groups as "Haidamaki" and "Shadow of the Sun" there are a number of other significant songs. So, in 2018, the official music video of the rock band "Gonta" for the song "Grey Wind is Crying..." was released. The song was written in 2005 to the words of Cherkasy poet Volodymyr Danyk. An academic version of the song "Flying Cossacks" performed by Olga Matviychuk (arranged by Volodymyr Matviychuk) was also released.
As part of the family group "Buttya" Frplays on the bassol, Dentsivka, Zholomiyka, and Utroka.
Teachers
Among Vasyl Lyuty's teachers: Lidia Serhiyivna Shcherbak, Lyubov Fedorivna Brydko, Olga Oleksiivna Turovska, Valentina Yakivna Petrenko - academic bandura, Larisa Mykolayivna Krasavina - music theory, improvisation and composition, Palivoda Ivan Hnatovych - academic singing, Igor Igorovich Savkov - orchestral conducting, Pavlo Andriyovych Kovalik - choral conducting, Svitlana Hryhorivna Kramska - choral conducting, Vardo Moiseivna Shamelashvili - piano, Galina Yuriivna Nikolai - scientific supervisor, Oksana But - playing the basso and "white singing", Oleg But - playing the Dentsivka and the lute.
Family
Great-grandfather, Pavlo Nistratovych Lisyanyi sang in the parish choir (tenor). The second great-grandfather, Cassian the Fierce, played violins and was a repairman. He learned this craft from his father (name unknown). The baton of violin playing was taken over by grandfather Metodiy, who, in addition to the violin, played the mandolin, the "Russian" guitar, the harmonium, and the tuba. Mother Lyudmila was one of the first to master the bandura and accordion, and uncle Hryhoriy continued the family violin path. However, no one chose music as a profession.
Married, has three daughters. The older one is Daryna Marchuk (after marriage, Bondarenko), graduated from the Cherkasy Music School named after S. S. Gulak-Artemovsky, majoring in piano, teaches in Cherkasy. The eldest daughter is Vlastemira, a schoolgirl. The youngest is Lelya (born in 2018). Wife — But Oksana Vasylivna — associate professor of the sound engineering department of Ivan Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema and Television, composer, folklorist, artistic director of the Buttya ethno-group. He plays the Hutsul cymbals, resheta, basola, bukhali (drum, beben), melodic glucophone, kazoo, bells, bells, tambourines, and rattles.
Among the famous relatives is the father of Yulianna's first wife, Leonid Stepanovych Marchuk, a horn player and folk violinist, Oleg But, a folk violinist, piper, folklorist, the brother of Oksana's wife. The first wife is Yulianna Marchuk, a presenter on FM radio, the second wife is Maryna Lyuta, a presenter at the Ukrainian Radio "Kultura".
Delight
In addition to playing the bandura, piano and guitar, he is fond of playing: wind, string and percussion folk instruments; stringed instruments of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - cytola, mandora, lute; electronic - samplers, synthesizers, sequencers; new musical instruments — zafun and venova
honors
Winner of the 1st prize of the All-Ukrainian competition of bandurists in the city of Dnipropetrovsk (1992, together with Oleg Sozansky).
Laureate of the 3rd prize of the M. V. Lysenko International Festival of Performers, Laureate of Festivals of Performers of Folk Art.
As a professional composer and arranger, he was recognized at the "Rozmay" and "Student Meridian" festivals.
Winner of the 2nd prize in the pop music genre of the "Pearls of the Season-95" competition-festival,
Graduate of the festival "Chervona Ruta-97" in Kharkiv and "Chervona Ruta-99" in Dnipropetrovsk (the latter as a member of the band "Do It Yourself"). Awarded the Special Award of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists for the actual reproduction of the Ukrainian national idea in modern musical forms (1997, Kharkiv, together with Yurii Horlov).
Laureate of the Yuri Gorlis-Gorsky Literary Prize (2022). Awarded the medal of the UOC of the Kyiv Patriarchate "For sacrifice and love for Ukraine" (2015). Awarded the Honorable Mention of the "Music Battalion" TVET NGO for his personal contribution to the struggle for the establishment of Ukrainian national culture, support of the spirit of the Ukrainian military (2020)
